Word: extended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blocked punt. Coleman, the running half of the Bruin's tandem quarterback team, drove Brown 50 yards the first time the Bruins had the ball. With Harvard keying on Coleman's running talents, the Bruin quarterback twice picked up valuable yardage with pesky over-the-middle passes, to extend the drive. Then, on second and goal, Coleman sliced through left tackle for the score...
...sitting still. In an age of nuclear confrontation, all too much decisiveness can occur within 90 minutes, much less 90 days, and the war-powers resolution does not seem to diminish the President's necessary power to respond to superpower challenges. As for whether the measure might unwittingly extend presidential war powers, Javits convincingly argues in his recently published book, Who Makes War (TIME, Nov. 12), that the precedent for executive activism is well established in real life, whatever the strict constitutional limits...
...thought that the Saigon government and the Communists were merely trying to improve their defenses and straighten the boundary lines of areas they controlled on the day the cease-fire went into effect. It is now apparent that both sides are violating the Paris Accords and are determined to extend their holdings significantly. Saigon's air force has been flying up to 100 sorties daily, many of them against targets in those parts of Tay Ninh and Pleiku provinces that were accorded to the Communists by the cease-fire agreement. In sections of Chuong Thien province, deep...
...machine, and sit down with a weary thud. The other, wearing purpletinted glasses and a long crimson scarf, goes up to the counter and, yawning, tells Frank what he wants. He then joins his buddies at the table, which is too low for their long frames. They have to extend their legs out onto the floor...
Part of the plan will extend the automated bullet lines, the only profitable segment of the railroad, by 1,000 miles by 1979. In all, Tanaka is calling for enlarging the tracks for bullet trains to 4,500 miles within the next dozen years. Though Tanaka's political opponents agree that JNR must be improved, they argue that the $40 billion plan is too lavish and will give a big push to inflation, already at 13%. The unions are not overly impressed either. They plan yet another paralyzing rail slowdown next month...